Painted Turtle on the Climb

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” 

― Guillaume Apollinaire

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Summer at Pandapas Pond

“Finding your purpose is a lifelong adventure. 

Enjoy the journey.” 

― Todd Stocker

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Deer In The Forest

"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature...." 

— John Burroughs

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Canada Geese - Autumn at Pandapas Pond

“Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.” 

 ― Hal Borland

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Sit and Watch The Leaves Turn

Everyone must take time 

to sit and watch the leaves turn. 

- Elizabeth Lawrence

Autumn at Pandapas Pond in Blacksburg, Virginia

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Patterns at the Pond

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. 

 ― William Wordsworth

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Pandapas Pond - Framed By Fall

“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, 

and big cups of coffee or tea.” 

 ― Katarina Bivald

Autumn Air also goes well with a wonderful walk in the forest.

This image captured several years ago during

a walk around Pandapas Pond in Autumn

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Oh Deer!

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

 — John Muir 

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Whispers In The Forest

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you

 ― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Deer in the Forest - Pandapas Pond

Blacksburg, Virginia 

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One Great Brotherhood

Do you see the two faces in the leaf?

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other

~Albert Pike


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Caterpillar - Woolly White Wonder

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

~Albert Einstein

  Pandapas Pond - Blacksburg Virginia

Goose - Putting on the Brakes

 Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart. 
~Unknown

Obsessed with Leaves

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. 
~ Rachel Carson

I've always had a bit of an obsession for leaves.

Each one unique and as with bird watching - leaf watching is free!

The Arrival

Oh Those Leaves! 

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Busy Beavers

Looks like the work of Beavers

It looks like the beavers have really been busy.

Lots more info HERE about beavers.

If you go to the link, they show a pic just like my first one...

seems that a beaver will abandon the tree if they think it is

too large.

Color Found!

 Berries in the Forest 

Fungus in the Forest.

Peeking Through the Trees

These two shots are from Pandapas..... seems like I'm always taking a shot through the trees or with a limb hanging in front. Oh well.........

This one taken through the trees on the New River

A Pathway, A Bench and More Trees

The leaf covered pathway that leads down to Pandapas Pond from the parking area

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good. 

~ Terri Guillemets

The Quote Garden

Fall Reflections and Canada Geese

  “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.”. 

― Stanley H. Horowitz 

 “Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.” 

 ― Hal Borland

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket 
than all the other seasons.” 

 ― Jim Bishop

Foggy Fall at Pandapas Pond

Autumn Images from Pandapas Pond, Blacksburg Virginia

Truly a LOVELY place to visit any time of year.